Being Quote by Marcos Alonso

In football it is all about control.

— Ralf Rangnick

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

— Julie Harris

It is a position where I love to play, without the ball having your responsibility but with the ball being free and trying to…

— Hakim Ziyech

In football, you don't hold on to the ball just to hold on to the ball. When you have it you need to be…

— Didier Deschamps

That's the intelligence of football: to see when to be compact, when to counter-attack, or, if you see that you're in the opposite half,…

— Shkodran Mustafi

A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury…

— Brendan Daly

Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball.…

— Arrigo Sacchi

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing…

— Shakira

I think that's part of the beautiful game. It's kind of this special relationship that happens in football, where you get kind of influenced…

— Tobin Heath

At the end of the day, it's about owning the line of scrimmage, controlling it, moving it and being able to run the ball.

— Blake Bortles

It's not science; it's common sense: it's playing the right players in the right positions for the style of football you want to implement…

— Phil Neville

In modern football the position, the placement of the team and occupying spaces is important.

— Marcos Alonso